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FARM ACCOUNTING GIVES AGRICULTURE FIRMER BASIS Producecr of Crops Who Keeps Farm Books Knows How Much Hs Is Making—Farm Bookkeeping Means Efficiency and Economy Here is a medley of familiar say ings—some with variations—each of which applies to farm account ing and so to the problem of mar keting farm products: “Figures don’t lie.” “A calculation In time saves nine.” “Foresight is better than hind sight.” “It pays to count the cost.” Specialists in the office of farm management, United States Depart ment of Agriculture, could add to this list almost indefinitely, for their studies of methods of farm vianagement reveal the tremendous need of accounting systems on American farms. The farmer wants to know whether his wheat pays, whether his cows pay, and whether his orchard pays, and yet he sel dom has sufficiently accurate fig ures to answer such questions. Above all he ought to know, and yet frequently does not know, if his farm as a whole is a paying prop osition. Department of Agriculture specialists do not claim that the systems of accounting for farms which they recommend will be ab solutely exact. They are, neverthe less, sufficiently accurate for all ordinary requirements.! The depart ment does not furnish sets of books to farmers. The systems which it recommends require only such books as can be purchased of a stationer or dealer in books and school sup plies. Practically working systems of ac counts which anyone may adopt without special study are recom mended. One of these is a direct entry system requiring no prelim inary books for original entries, which later would have to be post ed or copied into permanent ac counts. Frbm 2 to 10 minutes a day, in vestigation shows, is all the time required in keeping books, accord ing to the simpler methods suggest ed by federal specialists. This does not include a day or two, possibly more, required at the end of the year to close up the books and start a new set. It is recommended that the accounting year be start ed some time after the last crop is harvested in the fall and before the first crop operations are start ed in the spring. The beginning should be made on the first day of some month. To many ths inventory required in effective farm accounting is a big bugaboo, but unnecessarily so. Many farmers keep careful accounts throughout the year, but fail to rea lize that they are of relatively lit tle use, without the inventory, in showing the year’s income. As a matter of fact the taking of the inventory is not such a difficult task as many think, and probably will not require more than 4 or 5 hours —possibly only 2 hours—to complete. 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SAVES YOU MONEYLP reigllt and lh, P Quick-your St , . 9»"» merchant keep in your H 3 ? w "V°ckettheproritthedealetwouldget.WßlTETODAT Eff® IQ H B £' ■ for Free Samples. Address h I SAVANNAH FENCE & ROOFING CO. ■ Dept. J Savannah, Ga. ?! i? IyM j M * M j! 11 : PI ™ SE FR E E This Victory Red Persian Ivory > Pendant and Neck Chain, 30 inches long; these 4 Gold plated Rings t .gSigfer. nnd this lovely Gold pla-ted Laval- Here and Neck Chain will ALL be ’Blw ■" Given fkee by us to anyone sell- •-//////„.nttW W ing only 12 pieces of Jewelry at 10 cents each. Victory Red Is all the rage. B. D, MEAD MEG. CO., Providence, R, I. er live stock, machinery, tools, feed, produce, supplies, cash on hand and in the bank, amounts due from other perspns and owed to other persons, arid the value of growing crops. The latter is calculated by adding the value of labor and mate rials already spent on those crops. The thing which the United States Department of Agriculture empha sizes is the urgent need of keep ing some form of systematic ac counts. The elaborateness of the records will depend upon what the farmer wants to know, and the time he has available for keeping accounts. The department will be glad to suggest a system which will enable him to figure his income tax and ascertain what his farm as a whole is making. It can also suggest a system which will en able him to determine approximate production costs on his farm. For others, particularly owners of very large farms, the Department of Ag riculture is prepared to recommend a detailed cost accounting system which may require the services of a bookkeeper. For the men engaged in proudetion on a large scale such a system will supply invaluable in formation. Every farmer is a buyer and a seller as well as a producer. He must know the condition of his business if he is to buy and sell successfully. It is for each farm er to decide how extensive a set of accounts he wants to keep. The fact about which he should have no doubt is the value and necessity of at least a simple accounting sys tem. The old adages quoted above are considered very much in point by farm management officials. Fig ures, they say, do not lie regard ing farming any more than regard ing other subjects. A few minutes’ daily calculation may save hours of needless toil, which is another way of saying “a stitch in time saves nine." Farm accounting gives the farmer a foresight which every body recognizes as better than hind sight. Finally, it does pay to “count the cost,” for farming by rule of thumb is destined to become obso lete. Parcel-Post Marketing While it may be attractive to a city dweller to believe that he can have a vegetable garden grown for him 100 miles or 150 miles away, place his orders for the cost of a stamp, and have the produce deliv ered at his door, it should be remem bered, the United States department of agriculture points out, that not all farm products lend themselves to di rect marketing by parcel post. Us ually it is impracticable to market such heavy products as potatoes by parcel post, whereas eggs, butter, sausage, poultry, many vegetables, and nut meats may frequently be shipped with profit and at a saving to the purchaser. In general, the greater the value per pound the more favorable is the chance for direct marketing. CALLS ON MEN OF CITIES TO HELP FARMERS With a shortage of hired farm labor, as acute as in 1918, threaten ing to curtail food production on American farms, E. T. Meredith, sec retary of agriculture, has issued an appeal to city men, college students, and others to spend their vacations working on farms, particularly as helpers in harvest fields. Reports secured by the federal de partment from its representatives in practically every state in the union show that the supply of hired farm labor in this country is only about 72 per cent of the normal supply, compared with approximately 84 per cent of a normal supply a year ago. This year's shortage is almost ex actly the same as that of two years ago, when large numbers of men were in military service. The present shortage has arisen in spite of the fact that farm wages are 15 to 25 per cent higher than last year. The situation, unremedied, cannot fail to have an unfavorable effect on production, according to the United States department of agri culture, and Will tend to prevent any reduction in the prices of (farm prod ucts. While the total acreage un doubtedly will be reduced as a re sult of the present situation, it will not be in as large proportion as the reduction in the labor supply, be cause the farmers with their families are exerting themselves to the ut most to overcome their handicap. Cultivation this year will be less in tensive than formerly. More land will be put into grass and such other crops as require a minimum of labor, it is said, and the tilled fields will be less intensively, cultivated. Secretary Meredith calls on all business men and students to spend their summer holidays helping re lieve the present situation and so aid in combating high living costs. In making this appeal it is recognized that, at the outset at least, such la bor is not as efficient as experienced farm labor, but the excellent results secured in 1918, when city men in large numbers aided the farmers, leave no doubt as to the success of the present drive if the men will respond. The United States department of agriculture was represented by Asher Hobson at the meeting of the Na tional Farm Labor conference held, in Kansas City April 16, and the of fice of farm management, of which Mr. Hobson is assistant chief, is lay ing plans looking toward offering ef fective aid in dealing with the farm labor situation, particularly m the harvest season. It is expected that definite announcements regarding work along this line will be made in the near future. Until other Pro vision has been made by the de partment all persons interested in finding work on farms should write to the directors of agricultural ex tension at the agricultural colleges in the various states. These directors are prepared to supply the names or county agents having farmers in their respective counties who neea farm labor. By this method anyone desiring to help on a farm can get in direct communication with tne farmer. The following comments from rep resentatives of the United States department of agriculture and others intimately familiar with conditions in their respective localities sum marize the situation: _ From Connecticut. There is a general complaint of scarcity of farm labor in Connecticut. It is estimated that the farms of this state would use at prevailing wages 3,500 more farm laborers than we have at pres ent. Os these approximately 2,500 would be needed for the summer only in the tobacco and market garden sections and 1,000 would be used on the general farms for year-round work. With the lower wage but maintained commodity Prices, a larger number of men would be used. There is special difficulty in getting day help for short periods. Farm wages show an advance, of 15 to per cent over last year.” From Indiana. “One farmer In Elkhart county wrote us that there were fifteen farms in two townships that were without tenants or would soon be without tenants. This is merely an example of numerous re ports of this kind that are contin ually reaching us. . , . In many cases farmers are reporting that they BETTER SIRES MEAN DOLLARS AND CENTS AT MARKET TIME “What Is the use ®f all this noise about ‘Better Sires and Better Stock?’ ” It was one of the well-to do farmers of the county who was talking. “Look at those steers over yond. No purebred sires among their ancestors so far as I know. they are good enough for me. I tell you, Bascom,” he said earnestly, coming over to the fence beyond which the county agent sat in his flivver. 111 admit we’ve got a lot of help in a scientific way from the information you’ve brought us, but on this stock proposition it’s different. I believe in good stock, of course, and take a reasonable pride in my animals, but what is the use of overdoing it? We better move along the way we have been for the past twenty years, I say. Sometimes we get some poor animals, of course, but the creatures on my place suit me pretty well. My father, on the old farm back east, never worried about pure bred sires and he made a fair liv ing. What was good enough for father is good enough for me.” “Hold on a minute,” said the county agent, stopping his motor and com ing over to the fence. “You’ve al ways listened to what I have had to say in the past, and I want you to listen to me now, for the simple reason that it means dollars and cents to you. It’s nothing in my pocket, but it will mean more profits for you when you sell your live stock products. “Now here is the dope, as the boys say: United States department of agriculture men, other animal hus bandry specialists, poultry specialists and all the rest have figured this thing out on a broad basis. There are two ways about it. Better sires mean better stock; that means bet ter marketable products, and that means better profits!” Boy Converts His Tather For an hour Bascom, the county agent, and Sam, the farmer, talked over the better sires campaign, the county agent skillfully citing ex amples from his own personal knowl edge and from reports he had read. He told, for instance, of a New Jer sey boy who was influenced to buy a high-grade cow for $155, quite to the disgust of his “practical” father who owned five cows, which he claim ed, and truthfully, were ‘‘as good as the averjage in the neighborhood.” On freshening, the boy’s cow gave twenty-four quarts of milk, and kept it up for a long period, while none of the father’s cows was able to make any such record. Finally the father saw the point and con fessed that it was a deal more profi table to expend his labor and feed on well-bred animals than on his so called average cow. The incident set the county agent’s friend to thinking, and the former lost no opportunity to press his point home. “Sam,” he went on, “ybu don’t be gin to realize what this thing will mean on your place. Right breed ing counts every time. The United States department of agriculture tells of an Oklahoma farmer who owned two registered Shorthorn yearling bulls that he prized highly for breeding purposes. A butcher saw those bulls and on asking the price learned that they were regis tered and that it would take S2OO to buy the two. What did he do but pay the S2OO, and when he killed them he said they were the cheapest cattle he had bought for a long time because they cut the better kinds of beef, and more of It. My private opinion is it was too bad to deprive the community of the use of those purebreds, even though the butcher was willing to pay the price. But this is the big point: Breeding count ed in dollars and cents in that case, and it does every time.” Hogs Fay Despite High Brice Turning from the subject of cat tle to hogs, the county agent told of what North Carolina boys had been doing. “Even though hogs had never been so high,” he said, “hun dreds of boys bought pure-bred pigs with the expectation of selling their offspring.-" Those lads were not dis appointed. Through their county agents, the pigs were sold at splen did prices and more than one of are not planning to put out as large an acreage of cultivated crops if they can leave some land in grass and pasture live stock on it.” From Illinois. “Two representa tives have been out in the field and have come across, a number of instances whre farm help seems to be practically impossible to get. In general, farmers in Champagne county and other counties are paying from. SSO to $65 per month for either married or single men with the usual perquisites, and farmers in DeKalb county are paying from S6O to $75 per month.” From lowa. “The farm labor sit uation is not especially bright. Prices on farm products have started to decline and bid fair to decline still further. At the same time indus trial plants are able to pay high enough prices so that they can at tract the men from the farm. Even though the net saving might be no greater in town, living conditions appear to be more congenial and the tendency is to desert the farms.” From Massachusetts. “We find that the farm labor situation In Massachusetts is very bad indeed. Competition of manufacturing indus try with agriculture is very intense. The commissioner of agriculture esti mates a 25 per cent shortage in farm labor. The Worcester county farm bureau, serving the largest county in the state, estimates a decreased production of 20 per cent due to lack of help.” From Minnesota. “The manager of the employment office conducted jointly by the United States depart ment of labor and the state depart ment of labor, reports that farmers for the most part are offering S7O to $75 per month, plus board and washing, but that it is somewhat dif ficult to supply the demand at that figure. He reports that good men can be secured at SBO per month.” From Ohio. “Near the larger man ufacturing cities of the state, such as Akron, Youngstown, and Cleve land, the farm labor situation is especially serious. Many farmers are paying up to SIOO per month, with privileges, for men in that sec tion of the state. Very little good help can be secured at much less than $75 or SBO. Many farmers in southwestern Ohio are cutting down their acreage on account of labor short From Pennsylvania. “We consider our farm labor situation in this state the most serious that it has ever been, even more .than during the war. One of the contributing causes seems to be the high wages paid in industries and cities. A number of farmers in Cambria coun ty paid $75 per month during the war, even during the winter, and recently their men quit. . . . The dairy farmers are especially hard hit. . . . The big tendency of the farm ers of today seems to be to cut down their farms to just what they can handle themselves with the aid of the wife and small children. As soon as the children are large enough they follow the same trail that the hired men took.” From Rhode Island. “Our farmers are finding the labor situation more serious than at any time in the rec ollection of farmers now living. Manufacturing industries are paying so high for labor that the farmers are afraid to compete.” From Wisconsin. “In connection with meetings which I have attend ed during the last four to six weeks I have found that the attitude of farmers almost invariably has been that they would do what they could themselves, with their families, but they do not feel justified under ex isting conditions in hiring this high priced labor. One man told me he was going to reduce his actual crop acreage by about 20 per cent, re verting to the situation that existed on his farm prior to the war.” While the great majority of re ports show the farm labor situation to be unfavorable a few correspond ents report that their states will be able to continue production at about the normal basis. In Idaho, for ex ample, there is no apparent labor shortage and county agents antici pate no shortage until haying season. Reports from different parts of Ne braska indicate that the farm-labor supply is being fairly well met. The usual demand for help during the harvesting and threshing seasons is anticipated. their dads was converted by the ex perience to the use of purebred sires.” “See here,” said the county agent, pulling two photographs from his pocket, “these were taken down in Mississippi. This one here”—indi cating one of the photographs— “shows a typical piney woods rooter. You know this kind of razorback, Sam. Now look at this picture,” handing over the second phtograph. “Here is what two generations of breeding with purebred sires brought. There’s some pretty good Berskshires. Believe me, when the owner, standing back there, takes those hogs to market, he’ll appre ciate the money value of the ‘Bet ter Sires—Better Stock’ campaign.” The county agent paused, a minute as if to let the thought sink in. “Sam, you better sign up. This thing will mean a lot to you—even more next year than this —because you’ll have more good animals on your place.” “You win again, Bascom. Times have changed. We nave got to pro gress or we lose out. Count on me in the campaign.” A Farm to be proud of- THE well kept farm indicates pride in your prop- f erty, thrift and prosperity. e I[J It is good business to use paint liberally, for it protects your buildings against decay, your implements against / rust and ruin, and saves you costly repairs. / —g mA-- Painting is the one best investment on the farm, because / it prolongs the life of lyour property, addsjto its appear ance and enhances its value. W|| Free 1 I Paint Book. W W .r—,v O iX 'fest Ja Hsmss and Hotn ' B n**" 1 ' ! * - ™ to Taint Ghtm. : g j ~ " ‘ " ' '* l Contains Illustrations of attractively u R J painted homes, shows floor plans. I® tiave proven their worth during more than fifty years. For every sur- inftlmtion for Facethat needs protection, you’ll find a Pee Gee Paint Product that painting roofs, barns, bugq to s, ■ Brill give you longest service at lowest cost. Now is the time to paint decorating H and to “Save the Surface.” _ wallsand ceilings. ’ K Ask Your Dealer for Pee Gee Paints MAIL COUPON TO-DAY | Sa If he can’t supply you, write us ' IK | Important If there is no Pee Gee Dealer in your locality write for ■ II I our interesting Dealers’ proposition it ’ B i| PEASLEE-GAULBERT CO., Louisville, Kentucky II incorporated , \ JI 81. <II J ■■ ' II M 7 ■ I llllllM’ tt I WiMM // ■ ■E IB E nflK bI ! vx** / HBHB HBRBhhI / Tlliereis Paint Product/br Every hirpose * / / X7 ■■■ * *1 ■ THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1920. Common Course of Market | Depends Largely on Supply The man engaged in either sell- ; ing or buying perishable produce will do well to familiarize himself with the usual course of the market in such lines during a season. The natural market course, according to marketing experts of the United States department of agriculture, is somewhat as follows: It starts high with active move ment even for inferior stock because the demand has the sharp edge of novelty and appetite. The price grad- I ually declines and poor stock becomes harder to sell as the supply increases. Lowest prices arrive soon after the heaviest shipments begin, and a glut may occur, especially if many sec tions are shipping at once and there is much poor stock. Then, with s decreasing supply, prices advance, sometimes recovering much of the early decline, but usually not reach ing the opening prices because de mand is far less keen at the end of a long season. If the last of the shipments are inferior, as happens frequently with many perishable crops, the season may close at or near bottom prices. The common or natural market developments do not always take place as might be expected. Quite frequently superior quality of the main crop or absence of general com petition will bring higher prices in mid-season. Un expected shortage may cause the reserve stock in stor age to sell at high prices at the close of the season, especially the less perishable crops like potatoes, onions, apples, cabbage, etc. Careful study of crop, shortage, supply, and shipment should enable a fairly good judgment to be made of the outcome. However, quickly perishable short season crops like strawberries or melons are very irregular, so it is difficult to form a reliable market judgment of them. Use Salt to Control Fleas A great many inquiries are reach ing the bureau of entomology, United ’ States department of agriculture, for 1 methods of controlling fleas. The work of the department has shown, fortunately, that the best means of controlling fleas in most instances is very simple. Fleas usually originate in the basement of the house, or in some covered place such as wood sheds and stables, to which hogs, dogs or other such animals have ac cess. The remedy is to give the base ment, shed, or other breeding place a thorough cleaning, burn the litter, and then sprinkle the floor or ground in the building or shed with common salt. The salt should be sprinkled thickly enough almost to cover the ground and should then be wet down with water, the specialists say. It should not be wet sufficiently to cause it to run, however. If there are about the place any houses, cribs, or the like built on piles so that hogs and other animals can go under them, salt should be applied there. Gener ally speaking, it is fairly easy to de termine where the fleas originate, and it is usually such a place as can be reached by the salt treatment. 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